Accession number:
PML 187
Uniform title:
Speculum humanae salvationis. German.
Published:
[Speyer] : [Peter Drach], [about 1481]
Description:
[7] I-CCXXVIII [5] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
277 woodcuts from 253 blocks and initials.
BSB-Ink dates to ca. 1480.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-30⁸]: 238 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [30]/5-8 blank.
Explicit (leaf [30]/4r): Deo gratias. [printer's mark]
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.2 x 21 cm
PML copy missing 4 leaves: [1]/1 and [30]/6-8 (blanks).
Printed in Drach's types 2:94G and 6:120G.
Title from half-title page (leaf [2]/1r): Das ist der spiegel der menschen behaltnis mit den ewangelien und mit epistelen nach der zyt des iars.
Woodcuts formerly attributed to the Housebook Master (Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet).
Binding:
17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (31.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports, with arms of Abbot Johann Christoph Guetknecht of Metten (front board) and St. Michael (rear board). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; edges colored red. 2 clasps.
Variant Title:
Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (when required; most initials printed). Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
Metten (Bavaria), St. Michael, Benedictines, inscription, 15th/16th century: "Iste liber est sancti Michaelis Archangeli patroni in Metn" (leaf [1]/2r) and binding; Munich, Court Library, "Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis" stamp (leaves [1]/2r and [30]/5v); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), price code mt/-/-, VIII/91, and description by Cockerell laid-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code sl/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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